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In 1979 or 80 my soon-to-be brother-in-law lent me Permanent Waves by Rush. It blew me away and I started listening to The Friday Rock Show on Radio 1 quite soon after, let me tell you!

Also, in 1975 a schoolfriend lent me The Beatles 1967-70. That was a pivotal moment in my life and thus began a love-affair with The Beatles which still goes on to this day :)

Velvet Underground album with banana on front..
Van der graff generator....least we can do is wave to each other
Erik Satie...played on a very old record player
...used to go to a kind of commune place in Hebden Bridge every now and again and these all used to get regular plays..think its the only records they had, but I hadn't heard them before..
oh and 'In a Silent Way' by Miles Davis...used to listen that all night on repeat play...played that since, but doesn't sound quite as good :o)....still a good album though!

Our guitarist Mark said 'give this a listen, it's right up your street'
The band were the YOYOs.....
I loved it and realised the band was formed by the Bass player of the Wildhearts.....one of my all-time favourite bands.
3 colours red is another band of this style.....
Kick-ass, dirty, sleazy rock 'n roll with great riffs, hooks and melodies with driving rhythm and a 'Punk' edge.....
Great played LOUD.....

Broadsword and the beast-jethro Tull

this album was brought out when I was 7, my dad played it all the time, I loved it even then, I'd seen it on amazon months ago,imagine my sheer joy when I saw it in fopp Manchester for 3 quid!!

Also fleetwood mac tango in the night , my dad played that a lot when I was younger, and 3 or 4 years ago I thought I have to have that album on cd, every time I hear it reminds me of days out with Mum dad and my brother in the car

I went to see Quo at the Free trade hall in the seventies (They were awesome) but Montrose were the support band, (Ronnie Montrose, Sammy Hagar, Bill Church, Demmy Carmassi et al)Ronnie did "Bad Motor Scooter" using what I think was called a "Hi fli" guitar synth, it was awesome and the first Montrose album is a classic raw rock album and if you havent heard it you really must, only 45 mins long but every tune is quality hard rocking guitar music.

The other would have to be my first taste of Rush. Bob Harris played "finding my way" off the first album (John Rutsey on drums rest his soul)he played it to a really old cartoon of felix the cat.no such thing as the tinternet then so I ended up buying 2112, Fly by Night and Caress of Steel before I found the album with it on.Still one of my favourite rush tracks, young and raw Lifeson / Lee

Phew some to top above buthere goes....

Van Halen - women and children first - Back then i thought Quo were the beginning and end of rock! boy was i wrong.

Billy Joel - Borrowed it off my mum and jesus what a quality songwriter he is ...

Pop Will Eat Itself - Two fingers my friends ... Not generally big on industrial music but this is absolutely awesome..

Frank Zappa - Sheikh Yerbooti - My uncle used to play it continuously - IMHO the first 12 minutes of the album/CD are about as good as music gets - Whole range of styles covered, the playing is incredible, the tongue is firmly in cheek - Now my all time favourite album!!

Oh and Right Said Freds first album obviously!!

Have to say it was Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds that my dad had borrowed from a mate in his work.. Totally blew me away and the bass part of 'Horsell common and the heat ray' was probably the first ever thing I learnt to play!

After that was probably an album an old mate lent me (god rest his soul) and he said 'Shaun I reckon you'd love these'.. That album was Signals by Rush.. Immediately went out and bought everything by them and they're still my favourite band of all time.. So glad he lent me it!

Shaun

P.S Great thread, something different! Also.. Alyerpal.. Loving our new banner mate :)

About 78/79 when i was 10/11, was in my friends house and his brother had the biggest record collection i had ever seen,this is where i first heared Paranoid,tubular bells,great rock&roll swindle we used to giggle at "friggin in the riggin",nevermind the bollocks,

the wanker song(ivor biggun??) we got to know the lyrics to that lol,Kraftwerk,Saturday night fever.

I remember there was an album by "Atomic rooster" i thought that was a great name,there were lots of classic rock albums

Ahh the good old days ;)

Darren

Bloody hell Shaun how can i forget War of the worlds,even my kids love it!,i got it on CD now but its not as good as that double album with the all the pictures to look at when you were a kid listening to it...and scared haha

Darren

AYP and Shaun. Rush fans = men of taste :)

@ Alyerpal - Posted so many times about Rush mate thought you well knew hahaha! Even tried to get a bit of a Rush tribute going foor a one off gig on here sometime ago which kinda went to pieces hahaha!

@ Loverrockets: Yeah I still have the old vinyl myself with the booklet with all the great artwork inside.. What's weird is that mine was a bit scratched and whenever I hear the cd version I still look out for the 'No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space, of space, of space, of space, of space' *Moves stylus*

lol!

Shaun

only had me Dads Eddie Cochran, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Little Richard n me Mams Elvis albums as a kid............didn't come to any harm there tho did I? ;-P

was brought up on classical, and was given some TOTP albums about age 13 ish, and thought that was it. then someone brought Rush; A Farewell To Kings to school for a music lesson, it blew me away, i never knew music could be so good. i bought that album soon after, and 2112, Caress Of Steel, Fly By Night, proper change of life moment hearing Rush that first time, been into metal, punk and rock among others ever since

an american friend lent me "uncle meat"-frank zappa and the mothers-completly blew me away!!! ;-D

Queen - News of the World. My Dad borrowed the LP from my cousin. I listened to it once and my cousin never got it back!

Steve Earle - Copperhead Road. First I heard of him was when I borrowed this CD from another cousin. Blew me away.

Already mentioned him recently but Jimmy Barnes - Barnestorming (Live). An old workmate introduced him to me with this amazing live CD. An absolute classic.

UFO strangers in the night. Still one of the best live albums ever

@alyerpal awesome innit, still love it now. Another album i heard at someones house which i couldn't wait to get was Chili Peppers, Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magic. After years of mainly punk and some metal it was one of those albums that turned me on to a band i bought everything by and still love.

Going to sound weird to anyone who knows me at all, but I would say my 'gobsmacked' album was probably "stranger in Town" by Bob Segar and the Silver Bullet Band! Some absolutely corking honest rock and roll tunes on it - "Hollywood Nights, Old Time Rock and Roll, Feel Like a Number..... brilliant album!

My parents owned it, and I remember nicking it when I moved out, and now my youngest boy listens to it!! Even more amazing when you consider it's on cassette - my parents bought it brand new so it must be 30+ years old?

I also discovered John Denver at about the same time...

does this thread make me sound less of a man?!!

Mick

@Sandwich Slayer

I would love to know what your parents thought when you brought home a Rush album instead of classical music,you must of got some stick for that?

I know i did for having Nevermind the bollocks and kings of the wild frontier by Adam and the ants ;(